United Nations Harassing Tiny Country of Andorra for Not Allowing Abortions United Nations Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women CEDAW In its report to the committee the Catholic country represented by Esteve Vidal Counselor Delegate for Institutional Relations of Andorra indicated that it regarded unborn children as having the right to life and thus abortion as a crime The Ministry of Health noted that the Penal Code art 185 punishes abortion with imprisonment up to a maximum term of 30 months for the mother and six years for the person who performed the abortion and that women who wish to have an abortion travel abroad One of the 23 experts presiding as part of the UN committee according to a UN report demanded to know What did women faced with unwanted pregnancies do if they did not find it possible to travel The UN report notes that the committee member also asked for information regarding the women who had been imprisoned for abortion The committee also apparently took offense to the fact that most education in the country was provided by Catholic schools and made a pointed inquiry about the availability of sex education The UN report relates that one expert asked Were the Catholic schools entities unto themselves

Outside Population Controlers Seek to Impose Their Systems on the Philippine People Weeks January 2006 Catholic Philippines Mulling Limits on Family Size December 2006 Christians and Muslims Against the Two Child Bill in Manila Filipino Family Fund 2006 This is not a policy growing from Filipino values it is social engineering from

Legalization of Abortion in the Philippines Pushed before we can come up with a system of legalized abortion for any reason he added noting that under present laws abortion is considered a criminal act The proposed legislation in the Philippines Congress seeks to legalize abortion for specific instances such as to supposedly protect the health of the mother Rep Casimiro Padilla of Camarines Norte filed the bill last week President Estrada has not expressed a position on the bill but the influential Catholic Church has vowed to block its passage Msgr Pedro Quitorio spokesperson of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines has expressed dismay saying Padilla has already convicted the unborn babies as criminals and monsters Quitorio strongly reacted to Padilla s justification that unborn and unwanted babies should be aborted because the unwanted children who were not nurtured with love in their childhood bring to the fore their violent attitude Padilla s logic is distorted Quitorio said There is no such thing as an unwanted baby in a civilized world but for some legislators it is always kill kill kill Now it s kill the babies SOURCE The Pro Life Infonet a daily compilation of pro life news and educational information To subscribe send the

United States Cuts Funding for Marie Stopes International abortion group akin to International Planned Parenthood carries out abortions in many of its centers around the world targeting especially third world countries The State Department found that Marie Stopes works as a partner with the UN Population Fund in China US law forbids public funding of groups which are involved with coercive birth control and forced abortion The latest funding cut came to an AIDS project involving Marie Stopes

Taiwan Legalizes Abortion Drug RU-486 Minister of Health Lee Ming liang said The drug can only be used by women who are less than seven weeks pregnant and must be taken in the presence of a doctor Lee said Women would be required to have a check up 36 to 48 hours later where they would have to take a second drug called Misoprostol which causes a miscarriage of the unborn child who by that time has already been starved to death Legalising the drug offered women an alternative to abortion Lee said and urged doctors to abide by the regulations Pro life advocate disagreed saying Ru 486 is simply another form of abortion not an alternative Companies involved in the import and distribution of RU 486 would need to register with the authorities The dangerous abortion pill which was introduced in France 12 years ago has been available on the blackmarket in Taiwan for several years and recently on the Internet where the three initial pills cost between 4 800 to 6 000 Taiwan dollars 144 180 US local newspapers said Source China Times French Associated Press December 28 2000 Provided by The Pro Life Infonet a daily compilation of pro life news and

Abortion Pill Leads to Increased Abortions in China freely available in China RU 486 is a prescription drug However it is available on the black market in many Chinese cities for about A30 Chinese health officials are now concerned that the non prescribed use of RU 486 could lead to infertility or other complications as the abortion drug is a lethal combination that requires extensive medical monitoring The pill was approved for use in China eight years ago and is now being manufactured in a number of Chinese cities The US Food and Drug Administration only approved its use in September and the abortion drug will be made at a Chinese plant Just how many Chinese women are having abortions is unclear In 1992 the Ministry of Health and the State Family Planning Commission put the figure at 10 million But the figures have since diverged sharply The commission s figures do not include unmarried women and are based only on registered activity By 1998 the health ministry said there were 7 4 million abortions to the commission s 2 6 million Statistical anomalies on such a scale are not unknown in China Six million Bureau of Statistics officers this month headed into the field to attempt the

China Male-Female Ratio Worsening newspaper said Foreign groups blame the one child policy for encouraging couples who want sons to abort female unborn children or kill baby girls The resulting shortage of women has meant that tens of millions of men remain unmarried and childless On average in the rest of the world 106 baby boys are born for every 100 girls but more boys die in childhood and the numbers tend to even

China Continues Coercive Abortion series of deceptions which the Wus hoped would allow them to go undetected When the contraceptive device was replaced Mrs Wu was just two weeks pregnant and managed to avoid detection Three months later it would be another story So a woman who looked like Mrs Wu and who had already had one child agreed to assume her identity and be inspected in her place Others who had tried similar trickery and been discovered were forced to abort The next inspection would be more difficult An identity card was required So was a marriage certificate a document that records the birth of children and personal photographs Prior to that inspection a family planning campaign had been conducted From midnight to 6 a m authorities visited neighborhoods looking for signs such as crying babies of extra children If they discovered a woman pregnant with a second child she was taken away sometimes in the middle of the night and given an abortion Some women are caught in their eighth and ninth months and the fully formed child is killed Midwives who try to help by secretly delivering second or third children have their licenses revoked if they are caught The second Wu child another boy was born at home The Wus contemplated paying a friend to keep the baby but the cost was prohibitive Though Mrs Wu did not breast feed her son two months prior to the next inspection in hopes that her milk would dry up she was found out and detained by authorities who questioned her relentlessly They demanded a fine of up to 7 000 U S Unable to pay she was locked in a room with 10 other people a filthy toilet no bathing facilities piles of trash and mosquitoes Wu pleaded with the authorities to